Surgically Extracting Datum From Nested Json Object Using Python

From this nested JSON object I need to parse out and pretty print the value for 'id' and the value for 'location'. { 'links': { 'self': 'http://localhost:2

Solution 1:

I'm taking a leap and guessing the info you really want in the end, which is a list of item IDs for each location ID:

import json
from collections import defaultdict

with open('prettyPrint.txt') as data_file:
    data = json.load(data_file)

locations = defaultdict(int)

for item in data['data']:
    location = item['relationships']['location']['data']['id']
    locations[location] += 1

print(locations)